Fortinet and Check Point told Wall Street that increased security spending has led to strong growth from deals at large enterprises, including managed service providers who are building out security services practices.

Managed service providers that started out by producing log reports to help clients meet compliance mandates are now building out their business by uncovering potential threats that need immediate attention. Incident response services are next.

Michael Dell fielded some tough questions from Channel Company CEO Robert Faletra during the opening session of the 2014 Best of Breed conference. Here's what Dell had to say on HP's split, Carl Icahn, and everything in between.

Palo Alto Networks issues security update to address a weakness that enabled attackers to bypass the next generation firewall, something that had contributed to its poor performance in NSS Labs testing.

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and Symantec, reportedly close to breaking apart its storage and security businesses, reached a point where acquiring new vendors couldn't sustain growth, according to FireEye CEO Dave DeWalt.

Retail data breaches get the biggest headlines, but midmarket businesses are increasingly the target of cyberattackers and the damage could be catastrophic, according to FireEye and Mandiant executives.